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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: procedures and data
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 16:15:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 16:15:17 1987
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Summary: This is a known variation of lisp.

> [instead of]
>
> (+ a b)
> 
> A program might look like
> 
> + (2 2)

In the lisp 1.5 system on the 11/70 at Berkeley some years ago this was an
alternate input parser. You could switch to it using the ($mumble) special
function. I thought it ugly, but some people liked it. I think this was
called nlambda form, because it also deferred evaluation of the arguments
until you eval-ed them.

FORTH has a valid alternative syntax and semantics that captures some of the
flavor of lisp. You might want to look into it for ideas.
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